Bad Bloggers!!

For those of you who follow our blog you already know we are not very good at keeping up to date. Several of the reasons include laziness, having 5 children, jobs, home improvement projects and a general lack of belief that anyone is really that interested in our lives. With that being said we also use this as a communications tool for the families of a couple of our kids who live in Russia and Serbia. To you we apologize for the lack of updates. I recently discovered many of our pictures went missing as well and we will work on updating those, we switched from using Dropbox to Google Photos and somehow it deleted a bunch from the blog, but luckily not from our files.

We've been back from Serbia over 6 months now and a lot has changed and happened. We are over the moon with our Sara and look back very fondly at our time in Serbia, it is a country I hope to visit many more times in the future. Sara has gone to pre-school this year and grown taller and gained a bit of weight. She is very well integrated into our family with only a few areas of concern, primarily her desire to scratch people really hard or hit them. The hitting has slowed way down and we are working on the scratching, she seems to get a little over stimulated with certain situations and seems to do it because she thinks it is funny. Lots of progress but much more to come!

My big girls Caelia and Lera are wrapping up their time at Fraser Academy and will be moving onto middle school. We of course are extremely nervous about the transition since they did so well at Fraser and had some wonderful teachers and paras over the years. We have been very lucky and although excited about the next step, very leary about finding the right school and situation.

Masha has changed so much this year. She is finishing up 1st grade and matured a ton, not to mention grown much taller. I think with the exception of Sara all of our girls are incredibly tall by Down syndrome standards. Masha has also seemed to find her place in our house, she adores Sara and plays a lot with Lera and bit with Caelia. This is a great thing for her because at first she was not well liked by her big sisters, but they have all bonded really well.

Michael graduated from High school and is ready to go into a transition school where we will work on his basic college classes and also some life and career skills. Its so hard to believe he will be 18 soon, it seems like yesterday he was our only little baby, then a big brother to Caelia and now he has 4 little sisters. They love Michael so much and we know he loves them. We are lucky parents to have such a fine young man as a son.

Hopefully more posts and pictures to come....

1 comment:

This bad blogger thought she'd post on her blog, and went blog surfing instead! It was so good to see a current blog post from you! The girls have all grown so much! Congratulations to Michael on his graduation!!

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Michael

This is our son. He is 18 years old and adored by his sisters (and parents). He is kind and makes them laugh and meticulously guards his room from their daily raids. His beloved Masha has come home at last. He visited her in Moscow and so fell in love with the people and city that he hopes to attend college there one day.

Caelia

This is our Caelia. Her name means Heavenly. Her birth changed the way we view the world. She is a wonderful spirit. She is gentle and determined and everyone who meets her is enchanted. Her sweetness and beauty are what led us to adopt her sisters.

Valeria

This is our Lera. She was adopted from Ukraine and officially became ours on February 22, 2008. She is happy and loving and is thriving in our home. She has a quick mind, and a sunny disposition.

Masha

This is our Russian princess! She is home with us at last. She was born in Moscow City but is already a part of our family. She loves to dance and sing and follows Valeria around devotedly.

Sara

Sara is our latest addition. We adopter her from Serbia in 2013 and she is the last piece of the puzzle for our family. She is an incredibly sweet little girl and loves to dance and follow her new big sisters around.